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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life is Barbara Kingsolver’s chronicle of a year in which she and her family fed themselves almost exclusively from their own garden and from food grown in the local community. The book was published in 2007, just as the locavore movement was really taking hold.
For me, reading […] …

A year ago when our site was revealed to the Greater Ethernet, we asked readers to submit a haiku, awarding a prize to what we felt captured the theme the best. This August we want to repeat the contest. This time tell us what food issue really bothers you, really gets your dander up, really […] …

My sister-in-law sent me an email linking the msnbc story about a UK study where they found there was no health advantage to eating organic food. My first question when a “study” defies common sense such as this is – who funded the research. My colleague, the amazing Sandi Kaplan, MS, RD, posted the following […] …

Her name is “Truvia” aka “PureVia”. Well that was before the transformation. Before that, she was just a green plant named “Stevia”. And popularity in the U.S. did not come easy. It took some major players with big bucks to bring her to the American food stage.
I was first introduced to Stevia in the 80’s […] …

In the last few years there has been a new and welcome emphasis in nutrition and alternative health care on evidence-based information. That seems logical, right? Health care practitioners need to be able to back up the advice they’re giving their patients with research yep, that sounds good to me! Until recently, there wasn’t much […] …

Americans consume 14 pounds per person per year of artificial sweeteners. That’s a lot! The belief is that these zero calorie drinks will aid in weight loss. There are actually no studies showing that people who drink diet sodas lose weight. In fact, the opposite may be true. Some research indicates that the overly sweet […] …

When I was still one of Cynthia’s students, she brought in a guest speaker named Jo Robinson who talked to our class about the benefits of eating foods from pasture-raised animals. She told us that grass fed beef is more like skinless chicken breast when it comes to fat and like wild salmon in the […] …

For the last three summers I have been meaning to make jam and pickles. Somehow I fill up time with “more important” things and though I have yellow post-its stuck in my Complete Book of Home Preserving, the pages remain clean. This summer the university course I was scheduled to teach was canceled. […] …

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